127 Quotes by James Anthony Froude

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

We call heaven our home, as the best name we know to give it.

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.